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the G-man said:
I actually thought the covers did a good job of conveying what the tone should have been. It was the execution that I thought was bungled.



I see no shift in tone from the covers to the content inside. It's not straightforward humor, but it's still obviously comedic. The characters aren't evil versions of themselves, they're exhagerated parodies.

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I really don't see the comparison. I didn't attack the characterization. My complaint was that the story itself was poorly plotted.



I mean you're letting yourself get lost in details that in the end are meaningless, at least in cases like these.